8 Haiku

Lonely gull singing 
in a rosy morning sky
shared with an airplane

Watching fields of light

through a train window at night—
glimmering city

Ocean: big calm lake

gleaming white with full moon light
just before morning

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Sunrise in the east,

fat raindrops patter the streets—
rainbow in the west

Thunder shakes the house—

or is the next-door neighbors’
garage door rising?

Laughter like rattling

skeletons from some workers
on a pre-dawn bus

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Cranes like dinosaurs
against a wispy sky—
don’t look awake yet

From the beach house we

watch people watch the sunset—
brief blaze, then twilight



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Politician

—based on a song by Cream

Hey now baby

Get into my big black car
I want to show you
Just what my politics are

I support the left

But I’m leaning to the right
You know I’m gonna give in
Without much of a fight

I’m a politician

Hard to practice what I preach
But try to catch me baby—
You’ll find I’m hard to reach

I am your mayor

Your president
Your council member
I’m in your parliament

I am a pimp
(If you could see my hands!)
Just remember baby
Your dreams ain’t what I am



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Climb The Sky

A snake on the path
We’re silent and stare
Hawk circles the air

Child tiger god face

In a tree in the breeze

A breathing being

A breathing being

A life that climbs the sky

A smile you can smell

A crushed candy cane
A break in the game

Tense painted face

Totters on her high heels

Hair like a...hair like a...shield

A sweet nectar scent
A blur in the blooms
A bird like a bee

A sudden shimmer shivers

In the leaves of the trees

Breezes breathe

Breezes breathe

A life that climbs the sky



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